How to format your references using the Annals of Intensive Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Intensive Care. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. Ma E. Materials science. Watching the nanograins roll. Science. 2004;305:623–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cox AG, Goessling W. Regenerative biology: Take the brakes off for liver repair. Nature. 2014;506:299–300.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chen R-P, Chew K-H, He S. Dynamic control of collapse in a vortex Airy beam. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1406.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang X, Zhu H, Liu X, Yang F, Yang X. Egg white coagulum: a precisely tailorable membrane for biomimetic multilevel structured nanomaterials. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1464.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Tsui JB-Y. Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

1. Nixon MS. Human Identification Based on Gait. Tan T, Chellappa R, editors. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Amir A, Hartman T, Kapah O, Shalom BR, Tsur D. Generalized LCS. In: Ziviani N, Baeza-Yates R, editors. String Processing and Information Retrieval: 14th International Symposium, SPIRE 2007 Santiago, Chile, October 29-31, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 50–61.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Annals of Intensive Care.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Largest Lunar Explosion Recorded [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/largest-lunar-explosion-recorded/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. Market Research: Better Documentation Needed to Inform Future Procurements at Selected Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Oct. Report No.: GAO-15-8.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Schneider SZ. Mercury sources and cycling processes in the Cape Fear River estuary, North Carolina [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2009.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Marx L. A Romance With Birthdays as Bookends. New York Times. 2016 May 29;ST13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Intensive Care
Abbreviation	Ann. Intensive Care
ISSN (online)	2110-5820
Scope	Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine